Re: AC2300 R7000P Nighthawk auto-updates f/w?

Security issues are important, but so is the effective operation of the hardware. Visit the Orbi support zone and see the avalanche of complaints from people who have suffered grief when new firmware wrecked their installations. They do not have the option to turn off updates.

I monitor the support pages for my hardware. This is usually has the first place to receive new firmware, before it appear on the update servers. In the process, I also get alerts for other things related to my hardware.

Re: AC2300 R7000P Nighthawk auto-updates f/w?

Thank you very much Michael, that's very good to know, I shall monitor updates too and wait a bit to see if they are OK.

Never thought of this since I've never had a router with auto-update, and also never had an issue with a router f/w update.

Perhaps that's why I still wonder if, for the 'nearly everyone' that will never update f/w without auto-update, if they also care about security then enabling the feature might be better than never updating.

Re: AC2300 R7000P Nighthawk auto-updates f/w?

Autoupdate is a recent development. Netgear has had it for a few years, especially on Orbi devices.

The move makes sense. As you said earlier security is important. If you want to simplify life for people, then it is safer to apply updates silently. In the UK, BT has always done this for the modem/routers it supplies.

In the case of able modems, users can't even update firmware manually. This is all in the hands of the ISP.